The professional team set up by the director general of the Ministry of Health, and supposed to decide on the complex issue, convened ahead of the arrival of the vaccines. • These are the outlines discussed by the ministry's staff.
Who will be vaccinated first?
The professional advisory team, established by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, met tonight (Wednesday) to discuss the complex issue, ahead of the arrival of the first vaccines in Israel at the end of the year.
Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levy comments on the distribution of vaccines // Photo: Israel Today
The team is headed by Dr. Boaz Lev, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health, and Prof. Shmuel Rishpon, head of the Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases and Infectious Diseases, and has experts and doctors alongside lawyers and ethicists.
One of the models before the committee is the model defined by the World Health Organization and the American Center for Disease Control (CDC), according to which the first group to be vaccinated will include health workers (especially those at high risk of infection) and the elderly population (60 and over). For older age groups.
This phase will take place when up to ten percent of the vaccines ordered have arrived.
Later, when 20-11 percent of the ordered vaccine doses arrive, it will be possible to vaccinate other adults who were not vaccinated in the previous stage, young adults with background diseases (including organ transplants, cancer patients, diabetes, obese people, chronic hepatitis, chronic nephritis and more) Diseases in which the risk of complications and mortality from corona is higher, health workers involved in the vaccination operation and teaching staff.
In the third stage, with the arrival of 50-21 percent of the vaccines, the rest of the teaching staff, other vital workers from the health and teaching sectors, pregnant women, and more can be vaccinated.
It should be noted that this is a general outline set by the World Health Organization and the organization notes that each country should outline priorities depending on the availability of vaccines, the intensity of morbidity in the country and the size of the various target groups.
"Perhaps the first swallow of vaccines will arrive at the end of December"
Earlier today, Prof. Hezi Levy, director general of the Ministry of Health, addressed the issue in a briefing he wrote, and clarified that there will be no obligation to vaccinate but there will be an attempt to encourage the public to get vaccinated. 2021, "Levy said, adding," For the purpose of determining the first groups to be vaccinated we have appointed a team where medical, medical and legal personnel and until next week we will formulate the list of priorities.
The arrangement will be affected by the rate of arrival of the vaccines and the number of vaccines. "
Levy went on to say: "The vaccines have been tested on tens of thousands of patients in the third phase. They will pass the approval and registration conditions of the US FDA. We will bring vaccines to the country that have all undergone strict approvals while monitoring side effects. Who went through the whole system of approvals, "he concluded.